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When a Woman Chooses Art Over All Else

Avatar photo by Sophia Stewart July 18, 2022July 26, 2022

Both Celia Paul and Gwen John oriented their lives around being artists and were diverted by romantic entanglements with famous male artists that reduced them to muses. Was it worth it?

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